As he predicted, a few hours later, protesters did take to the streets.
As he predicted, people whose scores put them in between extreme extroversion and introversion turned out to be the best salespeople.
While man may not yet have colonised the moon as he predicted, Arthur C Clarke's science fiction does have a habit of becoming science fact.
Mr King hinted that he may have to write more letters to Alistair Darling as he predicted that CPI inflation was likely to remain stubbornly above the government's target until "well into 2009".
As he had predicted, she was carried by currents and wind to Polynesia 4, 300 miles away.
The dollar did indeed go down, just as he had predicted, but there was no nasty recession.
Since his Feb. 28 resignation, Benedict has been "hidden to the world" as he himself predicted, living at the papal residence in Castel Gandolfo, in the hills south of Rome.
As early as 1979, he publicly predicted that the Soviet Union would collapse from internal stresses.
Earlier this month, Chambers told Reuters that he expected the economic downturn sparked by the subprime meltdown to last into early 2009, rather than merely late 2008 as he'd originally predicted.
He also predicted that as a percentage of GDP, primary current expenditure (excluding interest payments and capital spending), which in 2008 reached its highest level since the second world war, would rise by a further three percentage points in 2009.
In doing so, ironically (and as Nietzsche would have predicted), he transformed himself to beyond-human, and left the rest of us with deeply scary questions about how we should relate to technology.
He also predicted that the return of Robertson to the club he graced as a player would provide "a huge psychological lift" ahead of Thursday's Uefa Cup visit by Schalke 04.
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He added that AS-levels alone correctly predicted the outcome slightly less frequently in 68.4% of cases.
He predicted the next few years would be remembered as the "decade of the Wimp", and looked forward to dark matter's properties being exposed via a number of investigation strands that included Wimp production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Instead, it was left to a Tory backbencher to raise it by asking if Tony Blair had been speaking literally when he predicted Mr Brown's "clunking fist" as prime minister.
He said both trends are likely to continue, as Forbes.com predicted two years ago.
In wistful moments, Wilner laments that the market for collecting period frames purely as art objects in and of themselves has never built up the head of steam he predicted.
He said the storm sped up as it approached shore and reached land before forecasters had predicted it would.
At that point he predicted Labour would take six seats from the Liberal Democrats and saw that as a crushing victory.
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He pioneered the use of three-dimensional graphics in games, and predicted as long ago as 2001 that physics would become an increasingly important means to enhance realism still further.
As data accumulate (usually by getting closer to the time of the event being predicted) he sharpens and then further sharpens the predictions offered.
He said he believed Android would overtake iPhone globally and he predicted the platform could become the de facto standard for a range of consumer electronic devices, such as TVs and home media servers.
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